Monthly Archives: May 2017

Details of an event tomorrow at the new North Hertfordshire Museum, Hitchin Town Hall, Brand St.

From: Jonty Wild
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 9:31 PM
To: Jonty Wild
Subject: FW: Herts at War Event – Tuesday 30th May 2017

Jonty Wild
Herts At War Project:

Roll of Honour Research Coordinator

jontywild

www.hertsatwar.co.uk

From: Jonty Wild [mailto:jontywild@pirton.org.uk]
Sent: 25 May 2017 11:31
Subject: Herts at War Event – Tuesday 30th May 2017

Here are details of a joint event with Hitchin Museum & Art Gallery.

Broad details are given in the poster below, but there are also opportunities to:

  • Meet members of the HAWP Team.
  • Find out more and influence the new phase of our project “A Digital Legacy”.
  • Bring along your Great War artefacts or family collections for interpretation.
  • Find out more about researching your relatives.
  • Find out more about volunteer opportunities*1 to help the project, including: photography, exhibitions, examining contemporary newspapers, recording artefacts and collections, interpretation, research and the roll of honour.

*1Whether you have years of research experience or none, an hour a week to spare or can volunteer full-time, there is something for everyone!

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May: Test Pit in Ashwell. Sarah Talks has emailed seeking volunteers to help dig a test pit in the meadow between the church and mill (details attached).

Tuesday 16th May: Annual General Meeting. Our Field Officer will give a short preview of some of the revelations soon to be published in the British Museum Research Report, Dea Senuna: treasure, cult and ritual at Ashwell, Hertfordshire. Letchworth Free Church Hall, 8 pm. Wine and cheese, etc. £3 each (Notice of AGM attached).

There is another opportunity to learn about human skeletal remains using Iron Age and Romano-British inhumations excavated from Baldock under the expert tuition of Dr. David Klingle, Osteoarchaeologist, on a weekend course 17th – 18th June (details attached).

Hitchin Historical Society’s History Day will be on Saturday 1st July, organised by Dr. Gerry Tidy. Our Society has taken a stall so we require volunteers to man it, please (details attached).

Sunday 16th July. Our Field Trip this year will be to West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and Grimes Graves Neolithic Flint Mines (details attached).

Current exhibitions and displays

Museum of London Docklands

The most complete range of archaeological objects unearthed by Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project, will go on display alongside the story of this great feat of engineering in a major new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, E14 4AL.

The construction of London’s newest railway, which will be known as the Elizabeth line when services begin in 2018, has given archaeologists a unique chance to explore some of the city’s most historically important sites. Since work began in 2009, the project has undertaken one of the most extensive archaeological programmes ever in the UK, with over 10,000 artefacts shining a light on almost every important period of the Capital’s history.

The wide variety of items on display will explore 8,000 years of human history, revealing the stories of Londoners ranging from Mesolithic tool makers and inhabitants of Roman Londinium to those affected by the Great Plague of 1665.

These finds were discovered in locations as diverse as suburban Abbey Wood in the south east, through Canary Wharf, across to Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and ending in Westbourne Park and Acton. The finds will sit against a backdrop telling the engineering story of the largest infrastructure project currently underway in Europe, with key facts and figures presented throughout.

Subscriptions

2017/18 Subscriptions become due on 1st June 2017. Please renew. The Society cannot continue to function without all members’ subscriptions. In particular, lecturers fees and expenses and hall hire have to come from subscriptions. Lack of sufficient income from subscriptions may result in fewer lectures. It’s up to us members.

Outstanding subscriptions may be paid in person at any meeting when membership cards can usually be issued also. Otherwise subscription cheques may be posted to Diane Burleigh, NHAS, 10 Cromwell Way, Pirton, Hitchin, Herts SG5 3RD.

Please note 2016/17 Membership cards are now available and may be collected at any of our lectures.

Adult £19, Family £24, Concessions (over 65, under 16), £10.

Non-members are welcome at any of our meetings. There will be a charge of £4 for entry.

Please renew your subscription otherwise you may be removed from our membership and circulation lists.

Thank you.

www.nharchsoc.org

osteoarchaeological workshop 17th-18th June 2017.pdf

osteoarch course booking form.doc

Hitchin Historical Society – History Day 2017.docx

2017 Field trip.NHAS5.docx

AGM2017.NHASnoticeof AGM2017.docx

Ashwell at Home 2017 test pit.docx